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Pompeo to travel to North Korea next month to revive nuclear talks

Shannon Reynolds |Thursday, September 27, 2018

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"The United States stands ready to export our abundant affordable supply of oil, clean coal, and natural gas", Trump told the United Nations General Assembly.

He went on to cover several topics of global interest, including a case for his controversial renegotiations of trade deals, an optimistic update on peace negotiations with North Korea, and calls for tougher sanctions on Iran.

"We will have good news from North Korea in the coming months and years", he said, adding he appreciated South Korean President Moon Jae-in's remarks about Trump in USA television interviews that aired on Tuesday. Opening up a new era of everlasting peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula as a team, .by seeing through the denuclearization of North Korea and ending the decades-long Korean War.

The top US diplomat left a Security Council session chaired by Trump to sit down with Ri and discuss next steps, said a senior State Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho arrived in NY on Tuesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly, where he is expected to deliver a speech on Saturday. "We are standing up for America and the American people, and we are also standing up for the world", he said.

The South Korean president said he and Trump also discussed the possibility of formally ending the 1950-53 war when they met here the day before. If takes two years three years, or five months.

"It's still too early for Trump to advertise his achievements on North Korea", said Shin of Asan Institute.

The primary goal of the second US-North Korea summit is to break the stalemate over denuclearization. After holding his third summit with Kim last week, Moon traveled to the U.S. to relay Kim's message to Trump. Moon asked an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. "How could North Korea deal with that?"

He explained Kim Jong-un's point of view as expressed in their latest meeting in Pyeongyang.

Pompeo said after his last visit to Pyongyang in July that progress had been made, only for North Korea within hours to denounce him for making "gangster-like demands".

"So I think you will have some very good news coming from North Korea in the coming months and years". It added that it would be willing to take further steps to end its nuclear programmes such as closing its nuclear test site, if the U.S. takes unspecified corresponding measures and honours the agreement signed in June at the first-ever summit between leaders of North Korea and the US.

The President said the regime will in fact give up its nuclear weapons because the promise to do so comes from the very top of the regime's chain of command.

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And touching upon South Korea's ironclad alliance with Washington, . the President added that officially ending the Korean War would not hamper the allies' strong connection.

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